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His Daily News relentlessly covered the issues around the police beating of Rodney King and the Rampart police corruption scandal, winning sometimes grudging admiration from The Times.

But her exchanges with the leaders of Harvard and Penn attracted enormous attention and won some rare plaudits from grudging liberals.

The law — which many Republicans around the country reviled and attacked for years as a signature achievement of the Obama administration — has found grudging acceptance.

Litman said that Cannon's grudging concession shows that the prosecution had the better side of the argument.

Tasked with training the younger girl in makeup, manners and grooming, Shinonome finds herself alternately frustrated and charmed by Ichi’s strong will, eventually developing a grudging respect for “the monkey child from the island.”